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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [255r] (514/739)
The record is made up of 1 volume (367 folios). It was created in 1898. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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451
No. 211— conid,
T abtliz to K armanshah, via Biiiah, Lailan, fyc.
No.
of
atage.
Names of stages.
Distances
IIT MILES.
Interme
diate.
Total.
L ailan
23
9U
Kashiwae
15
106J
Rbmaeks.
At 8J miles pavement ends, and track continues on
low embankment.
At 11J miles reach outskirts of town Binab, 2,000
houses. Thence for 1 mile wind through ex
tensive high-walled gardens. Road good
throughout; stony and undulating over hillskirt,
and likely to be heavy on the level after rain, but,
with aid of cause way j certainly at times passable
for wheels.
Four hours.
Traverse gardens of Binab, and cross the Sufichai,
small stream flowing in wide sandy bed, hy
sound stone' bridge of five arches.
Bear south-south-west, and at 1 mile pass village
Kb ana Bara, 100 houses.
At 2f miles strike edge of wide plain and skirt
hills left.
At miles road to Miandoab turns off right
front. (Section II).
At 4J miles, along hillskirt, pass hamlet Khanabad,
At 8f miles, over plain and open downs, pass
village Yolghunay, 2 miles left.
At lOf miles descend into cultivated level plain
with a few large villages.
At 12f miles pass . through large village Malik
Kandi, 300 houses.
Thence over cultivated plain, passing atl3j miles
village Karachar, 1 mile left. At 14 miles
Yuz-bashi-kand, J mile right. At 15 miles
Shapa, half a mile right. Cultivation ends here,
and barren level plain extends to Lailan, 200
houses, 23 miles. Road throughout very good.
Six and a half hours#
The village of Lailan is a fair type of the villages
on the elevated portion of the district. It
stands on a nearly level plain, irrigated to a
very small extent, and barren enough to appear
ance elsewhere, but capable of producing fine
crops of wheat with sufficient and seasonable
rain. There are no gardens or vineyards to
screen the village, and the mud houses are of one
single storey, with a small enclosure for cattle.
The whole covers a small extent of ground^ and
could not be held for half an hour against a force
provided with guns.
Leave Lailan on bearing south-east, skirting plain
at 1 mile from hill slope left.
At 3 miles cross dry gravelly bed of Lailan stream,
and approaching hills, pass hamlet Turabad.
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).
The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].
The information given for each route comprises:
- number of route;
- place names forming starting point and destination of route;
- authority and date;
- number of stage;
- names of stages;
- distance in miles (intermediate and total);
- remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.
The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia (folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.
An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.
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- 1 volume (367 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.
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